Windows Media Player 12 which is included with Windows 7 allows you to easily turn your machine into a media server to stream music, movies, and pictures to other computers and devices on your home network. Today we will show you how to set up streaming and how to use it.
Windows 7附带的Windows Media Player 12使您可以轻松地将机器变成媒体服务器,以将音乐,电影和图片流式传输到家庭网络中的其他计算机和设备。 今天,我们将向您展示如何设置流媒体以及如何使用它。
Enable Streaming
启用流
To start streaming media from your Windows 7 machine you’ll need to turn it on by opening Media Player and under the Library section click on Stream then click Turn on media streaming.
要从Windows 7计算机开始流媒体,您需要打开Media Player并将其打开,然后在“库”部分下单击“流”,然后单击“打开媒体流”。

Now just click the button to turn on media streaming. Alternately you can bypass WMP and open Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Network and Sharing Center \ Media streaming options then click on the button to turn on media streaming and press OK.
现在,只需单击该按钮即可打开媒体流。 或者,您可以绕过WMP并打开“控制面板” \“所有控制面板项目” \“网络和共享中心” \“媒体流”选项,然后单击按钮打开媒体流,然后按“确定”。

Now you’ll see what devices are connected to the network and can select which computer or media device have access to the media.
现在,您将看到哪些设备已连接到网络,并且可以选择哪些计算机或媒体设备可以访问媒体。
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You can also customize the streaming settings by selecting what will be shared and also notice the parental ratings control.
您还可以通过选择要共享的内容来自定义流式传输设置,并注意父母分级控制。

Setup Windows Media Player
设置Windows Media Player
Now that we have streaming media enabled it is time to take a look at what to look for in WMP. On another computer on the network open Windows Media Player and under Library you will see “Other Libraries” and the available libraries of Music, Video, and Pictures available for streaming.
现在我们已启用流媒体,现在该看看在WMP中寻找什么了。 在网络上的另一台计算机上,打开Windows Media Player,在“库”下,您将看到“其他库”以及可用于流传输的音乐,视频和图片的可用库。


This is a very cool new feature that can allow you to have one computer with a lot of disk capacity to run as your media server. Then have computers containing less space connect and enjoy all the media they want even netbooks…Neat!
这是一项非常酷的新功能,可以让您将一台具有大量磁盘容量的计算机作为媒体服务器运行。 然后让空间更小的计算机连接起来,享受甚至连上网本都想要的所有媒体……整洁!